1st Edition

The Slavery Reader

Edited By Gad Heuman, James Walvin Copyright 2003
816 Pages
by Routledge

816 Pages
by Routledge

The Slavery Reader brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery – the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries – the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth – the articles trace the range and... Read more
Part 1: The Atlantic Slave Trade  Part 2: Origins and Development of Slavery in the Americas  Part 3: Slaves at Work  Part 4: Family, Gender and Community  Part 5: Slave Culture  Part 6: Slave Economy and Material Culture  Part 7: Slave Resistance  Part 8: Race and Social Structure  Part 9: Africans in the Atlantic World

Biography

Gad Heuman, James Walvin